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Clear, impartial information on the IVF process, how IVF works, the risks and success rates from the UK Government's fertility treatment regulator.

Depending on your diagnosis, you can either take fertility drugs on their own or in combination with other treatments such as IUI or IVF.

If you have eggs, sperm or embryos in storage, it’s possible to move them both into and out of the UK, providing the import or export is to or from a HFEA licensed clinic. Find out more about importing or exporting your eggs, sperm or embryos.

If you’re thinking about going overseas for fertility treatment, there’s a lot to consider. It may seem obvious, but fertility treatment isn’t regulated in the same way outside the UK. Find out more about having treatment abroad.

If you’re having fertility treatment with donated sperm or embryos at a licensed UK clinic and you’re not married to, or in a civil partnership with, your partner, it’s essential that you both give consent before treatment so that he or she will be the legal parent of your child. Find out more about legal parenthood and why it’s so important.

Before embryo transfer, various decisions need to be made about your embryos. This page explains the decisions you and your clinic will need to make.

Certain conditions affecting a woman’s fertility such as endometriosis, fibroids and blocked fallopian tubes can be treated with surgery.

PGT-A (previously known as preimplantation genetic screening or PGS) is a treatment add-on.